![Album Review: The Sorcerers – In Search of The Lost City of The Monkey God [ATA Records; January 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sorcerers-335x335.jpg)
Jazz music has a long and fruitful relationship with the world of cinematography. Since the advent of sound-on-film, enterprising directors have recruited from a pantheon of jazz virtuosos to provide fittingly atmospheric scores for iconic feature films. From the timeless works of Duke Ellington and Henri Mancini to John Coltrane...
Tag Archives: Leeds
We never made a secret of our passion for musicians who are able to go (far) beyond the borders of style and tradition, always looking forward, experimenting, surprising and even unsettling their audience. Jambinai, a Korean experimental-rock band from Seoul, is all this and even more. They studied and grew...
![Album Review: Gentleman’s Dub Club – Lost In Space [Easy Star Records; January 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/optimized-lost-in-space-art-335x335.jpg)
Just as the new year has sunk in, Gentleman’s Dub Club drop Lost in Space on Easy Star Records, their latest instalment of contemporary dub rhythms and rhymes. The ten-piece collective that met in Leeds are a staple outfit in the modern dub and diaspora scene, and after five successful albums...
Gentleman’s Dub Club are a staple dub eight-piece outfit based in London who produced their debut album Open Your Eyes in 2012. No celebration of Jamaican music and its diaspora would be complete without a couple of GDC anthems blasting through the sound system. I spoke to singer Johnny Scratchley...
Only one of the most upbeat cities in the UK could only give birth to one of the most upbeat bands. So be prepared to skank all night on the 3rd of March, because Leeds born-and-bred Gentleman’s Dub Club, are coming to London to perform their biggest headline show ever...
We interviewed them, reviewed, previewed and also included one of their songs in our monthly compilation… and no, they don’t pay us. Jokes apart, we simply love their sound, attitude and inclusive and internationalist credo harboured in their music. For this reason, we will also be at Rich Mix on...
Kefaya is a concept which goes far beyond the Egyptian word meaning “enough”. If you followed the events during the Egyptian revolution of 2011, you already know that it is also the name of the protest movement which went on to spark the revolutionary fire, but Kefaya was there before...
![Album Review: Nubiyan Twist – Siren Song [Wormfood Records, 27th May 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/a0160417941_10-335x329.jpg)
Following their highly celebrated debut album in 2015, the eclectic 12-piece band from Leeds, Nubiyan Twist, is back with their new EP, Siren Song. And what an apt name for this second album, which allures and entices its listeners in many unexpected ways, from its dance-inducing funk groves and intoxicating...
One of the most exciting names on the UK music scene is also one of its most indefinable and difficult to pigeonhole. That’s because the musical ‘dirty’ dozen Nubiyan Twist (in honour of its front woman) dislikes definitions, labels or borders. The band, originally from Leeds, London, Oxford and Dublin...